Myanmar security forces and insurgents are committing human rights violations against civilians in restive western states that may amount to fresh war crimes, a United Nations investigator said on Tuesday.

After their hard-fought and valiant World Cup campaign effectively came to an end when they lost to India by 28 runs on Tuesday, the Bangladesh team left Birmingham yesterday afternoon towards what will be their final stop on the World Cup trek, London.

Police arrested Rifat Farazi, an accused in the sensational Rifat murder case, on Tuesday night, a day after prime accused Nayan Bond was shot dead in what officers said was a gunfight.

A Pabna court yesterday sentenced nine people to death in a case over the attack on a train carrying the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Ishwardi 25 years ago.

With around 3,000 more educational institutions coming under the monthly pay order scheme anytime soon, the government has proposed to allocate Tk 15,001 crore this fiscal year for salaries of all the teachers and staff on the MPO list.

Jonny Bairstow’s second successive hundred laid the foundation for England’s 119-run thrashing of New Zealand that saw the tournament hosts secure their place in the semifinals of the World Cup on Wednesday.

The extortion case against prominent road safety campaigner Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury has three witnesses, one of whom is now saying he was made a witness without his knowledge. But more intriguingly, their statements included in the charge sheet are exactly the same -- every line, every word and even every punctuation of them.

After keeping hopes alive for much of their World Cup campaign and for 98 overs of yesterday’s match against India in Birmingham, two searing yorkers from Jasprit Bumrah sealed Bangladesh’s elimination from the semifinal race of the 2019 World Cup.

Some students yesterday poured kerosene on a professor in an attempt to set him on fire at the University of Science and Technology of Chittagong.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday placed a five-point proposal, including creation of an environment of peace and fair competition by all countries staying away from rivalries, to make any Indo-Pacific initiative a success.

The prime accused in the Rifat murder case was killed in a “gunfight” between his accomplices and police in Barguna early yesterday.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad’s health condition has remained stable and unchanged since yesterday, which is a good sign, GM Quader, the JP chief’s younger brother, said yesterday.

Sri Lanka held off a West Indies charge at Chester-le-Street yesterday to win an exciting battle of two World Cup also-rans by 23 runs.

Agnese Barolo Rizvi and her husband were having dinner at the Italian ambassador’s residence in the capital when she first heard about the attack at Holey Artisan Bakery. She instantly thought about some of her friends who were at the upscale restaurant at that time.

The High Court yesterday handed over suspended DIG Mizanur Rahman to the police after he appeared before it and sought bail in a corruption case.

All river grabbing and pollution are criminal offences, the highest court in the country has declared in the full text of a landmark judgment.

At the end of the eight hours starting from 3:30pm today, a nation of cricket lovers will either rejoice or despair. Bangladesh will take on India in their penultimate World Cup group-stage game in Edgbaston needing a win against the form team of the competition to stay alive in the race for the semifinals.

The Bangladesh team got back to business with their first practice session after a five-day break at the practice ground in Edgbaston yesterday, with one eye on the India-England game taking place a stone’s throw away at the main venue.

Around 25 percent roads under the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) across the country are in “poor, bad or very bad” condition, and fixing those would require Tk 10,679 crore in the current fiscal year, an RHD survey has found.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves for China on a five-day visit today and she will discuss various issues with Chinese leaders, including Rohingya repatriation.